Dillen prickly pear
Layer: Not specified
USDA Hardiness Zone: 10 - 12
Edible: Yes
Edible parts: Flowers, Fruit, Leaves, Stem
Light requirement: Full sun
Water requirement: Dry, Moist
Soil texture preferences: Light sandy, Medium
Utilities: Animal feed, Fencing
Native To: Jamaica, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest
Introduced To: Jamaica, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest
Warnings: Weed potential
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- Alternate name
- Chapal, chhittarthohar, chorhatalo, dildo, eltham indian fig, hathhathoria, kalazaung-letwa, kalazaw, kyasha, nagadari, nagajemudu, nagathali, nagophenia, nagphana, ni ci ba ga, pak'an, palakakkalli, papaskalli, prickly pear, sappathikalli, shazaung-letwa, slipper thorn, sweet prickly pear, vot gai australian pest pear, common prickly pear, dillen's prickly pear, eltham indian fig, erect prickly pear, gayndah pear, pipestem prickly pear, prickly pear, sour prickly pear, spiny pest pear, spiny pest-pear, sweet prickly pear, sweet prickly-pear
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Growth
- Medium
- Height
- 1.0
- Introduced into
- Assam, Bangladesh, Canary Is., China Southeast, Colombia, Florida, France, Galápagos, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Haiti, India, Italy, Madagascar, Mauritius, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Portugal, Queensland, Saudi Arabia, South Carolina, South China Sea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Yemen
- Life cycle
- Perennial
- Plants for a future
- https://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Opuntia dillenii
- Plants of the world online
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:136534-1
Slug: opuntia-dillenii-dillen-prickly-pear
Permapeople ID: 2182
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